To Boost Viet Morale Letter Effort Starts
By Irvana Keagy
In an effort to bolster morale among the fighting men in Viet Nam and voice support of U.S. policy there, KU students have begun letter campaigns.
The latest letter campaign is being sponsored by a joint action of the Collegiate Young Democrats (CYD), Collegiate Young Republicans (CYR), and the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), and was begun Wednesday night when heads of the three organizations met to sign the first letter.
THE signers are (as pictured at right) from the left, George Groneman, Kansas City senior and president of CYD; center, Gus diZerega,
Wichita freshman and president of YAF, and right, Bob Miner, Great Bend sophomore and chairman of the CYR.
The letters, about 400 of them, are printed on one-fourth of a sheet of paper. The remainder of the paper is a series of 64 lines for signatures on each sheet. Backers of this letter project plan to obtain about 8,000 signatures.
The letters are being circulated among KU living groups by members of the three organizations. Plans also are being made to set up tables in the lobbies of the Kansas Union and Strong Hall, and by one of the entrances to Memorial Stadium Saturday.
THREE LEADERS . . . sign letter
What's Inside?
Adviser system lacking? pp. 2, 3. . ACLU director defends stand, p. 5. . Vox revises platform, p. 6.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan
76th Year, No. 29
Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Weather
The weather forecast is mostly fair with little change in temperature tonight through Friday, according to the U.S. Weather Bureau. The low tonight will be from 40 to 45.
Thursday, October 28, 1965
—Photo by Dan Austin
PREPARING THE SHOW—The life of a Homecoming Queen candidate is not all a bouquet of red roses. KU's princesses are spending hours this week practicing for Saturday's performance. Pictured here with their ROTC escorts on the windy practice field are Patricia Slider, Lyons sophomore; Kathleen Strayer, Mission Hills junior; and Martha (Muff) Yankey, Wichita senior.
ASC Body Again Revises Theta Tau Election Status
By Stephen Russell
The All Student Council Elections Committee voted unanimously last night to place Theta Tau fraternity back in the professional-cooperative voting district.
The decision came after Theta Tau had resigned from the Inter-Fraternity Council and University Party had petitioned the committee to reconsider the decision made Monday night to place Theta Tau in the Fraternity district.
BILL BRIER, SHAWNEE Mission senior and co-chairman of the Elections Committee, said according to precedent it is the task of the co-chairmen of the committee before election time to classify all campus living groups into districts for voting.
Brier said that this year he and the other co-chairman of the committee, Sue Sorem, Hutchinson junior, placed Theta Tau under the same classification as last year, the professional-cooperative district.
Brier said objections were then made by certain members of the committee concerning the classification. The objections were based on another precedent of the committee, the committee's use of IFC recognition as the determinant for classifying living groups in the fraternity district.
TO CLEAR UP objections, Brier called a special meeting of the Elections Committee which was held last Tuesday night.
Present at that meeting were Tom Stanion, Pratt junior and president of Vox Populi; Tom Shumaker, Russell senior and president of University Party; Larry Hedlund, Overland Park junior and social chairman of Theta Tau; and Jim Pitts, Wichita senior and president of the IFC.
STANION, SPEAKING for Vox, backed the objectors' stand that Theta Tau be placed
in the fraternity district because of their membership in the IFC.
Shumaker, speaking for UP, argued that the IFC includes in its membership both social and professional fraternities and since Theta Tau is a professional fraternity it belongs in the professional-cooperative district.
Hedlund, speaking for Theta Tau, quoted their constitution to assure the committee that Theta Tau is a professional engineering fraternity. He also expressed the wish of the members of Theta Tau to remain in the professional-cooperative district because of their professional aspect.
PITTS, SPEAKING for the IFC, said any fraternity can join the IFC providing they agree to follow the conditions of their constitution.
At this point Brier pointed out to Pitts that the IFC constitution states, in two places, its members must be social fraternities.
PITTS AGREED with Brier that the working policy of the IFC in accepting memberships conflicts with its constitution and said it would have to take steps to amend it.
After debating whether to follow precedent or to make their own ruling on the fraternity's classification and place them in the professional-cooperative district, the Elections Committee moved and voted to place Theta Tau in the fraternity district.
At approximately 1 a.m. Wednesday, UP announced the following statement passed in a special house meeting of Theta Tau late Tuesday night:
"BECAUSE THE ASC Elections Committee has classified Theta Tau as a social fraternity due to the IFC, and because Theta Tau by definition in the national constitution of Theta Tau is a professional engineering fraternity, Theta Tau resigns from the IFC until such
time when professional fraternities can be recognized by the IFC."
UP also petitioned the Elections Committee to reconsider their decision since the primary objection against classifying Theta Tau in the professional-cooperative district, as stated by Brier at Tuesday's ASC meeting, was their membership in the IFC.
Brier accepted the petition and held another special Elections Committee meeting last night.
LARRY HEDLUND and Ken Nied, Prairie Village sophomore, appeared for Theta Tau and presented the committee with Theta Tau's statement of resignation from the [FC].
Hedlund said the members of Theta Tau had not been aware that the IFC's constitution allowed for only social fraternities as members. He said Theta Tau had resigned from the IFC because Theta Tau is a professional fraternity and believes that it does not belong in an organization which discriminates against professional fraternities.
After Brier asked all nonmembers to leave the meeting, Mike Grady, Leawood junior, read the following motion to the committee.
"THE VOX POPULI members of the Elections Committee resolve to stand consistently and objectively behind the criterion of accepting IFC recognition as the basis for determining which houses shall represent the social fraternity district on the ASC. Therefore, we move for full and unanimous recognition of Theta Tau fraternity as a member of the professional-cooperative district in light of its pending withdrawal from the IFC. . ."
No discussion followed, and in a roll call vote, the committee unanimously approved the motion.